Arevalo v. Department of Employment Security

OPINION

GREENWOOD, Judge:

Plaintiff Amador Arevalo appeals from a decision of the Board of Review of the Industrial Commission that plaintiff failed to timely appeal from a Department of Employment Security (Department) decision that he had knowingly withheld material information to obtain unemployment compensation benefits.

Plaintiff received unemployment benefits in 1981 and 1982. He left the United States and returned to Mexico, his native country, in 1983. On March 11,1983, while plaintiff was still in Mexico, the Department mailed a notice to plaintiff at his United States address advising…